A female orca appeared to adopt a baby pilot whale in the first known case of its kind. Scientists observed the orca caring for the calf in western Iceland in 2021, a new study says. The study noted ...

The newborn killer whale was spotted off the coast of Vancouver Island in Canada, experts said. Screengrab from Facebook A boat of tourists off the coast of Canada was following a pod of orcas when ...

An endangered orca is still clinging to her dead calf more than two weeks after her newborn died.Michael Milstein, a spokesman with NOAA Fisheries, says researchers on Wednesday spotted the ...

Whale watchers in northern California were treated with a sighting of a very pale orca nicknamed Frosty. A video taken by Evan Brodsky of the Monterrey Bay Whale Watch shows the white orca swimming ...

Move over great white sharks. Make room for another apex predator in town. Four killer whales were recently spotted south of Nantucket, a rare pod sighting in southern New England waters, while an ...

An orca gave birth to a daughter on July 24, but it died half an hour later. The orca, named J35, has been seen swimming alongside her daughter's body for 16 days in a row. They were last seen off the ...

Researchers identified a new calf swimming with the Southern Resident killer whales. The orca was seen beside L77, who was pregnant. The calf was named L124, or "Lucky." “I’m hopeful. Anything that ...

There are very few documented cases of orcas attacking humans in the wild, and these interactions are extremely rare and not well understood. True, you may have heard about whales ramming into boats ...